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* [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: BUG FIX: Correctly handle zero register transfers
@ 2015-12-03  9:58 Pavel Fedin
  2015-12-03  9:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: Correctly handle zero register during MMIO Pavel Fedin
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Fedin @ 2015-12-03  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvmarm, kvm; +Cc: Marc Zyngier

ARM64 CPU has zero register which is read-only, with a value of 0.
However, KVM currently incorrectly recognizes it being SP (because
Rt == 31, and in struct user_pt_regs 'regs' array is followed by SP),
resulting in invalid value being read, or even SP corruption on write.

The problem has been discovered by performing an operation

 *((volatile int *)reg) = 0;

which compiles as "str xzr, [xx]", and resulted in strange values being
written.

Pavel Fedin (3):
  KVM: arm64: Correctly handle zero register during MMIO
  KVM: arm64: Correctly handle zero register in system register accesses
  KVM: arm64: Get rid of old vcpu_reg()

 arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h   | 12 ++++++
 arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c                  |  5 ++-
 arch/arm/kvm/psci.c                  | 20 ++++-----
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 18 +++++---
 arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c         |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c            | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.h            |  4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs_generic_v8.c |  2 +-
 8 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

-- 
2.4.4

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2015-12-03  9:58 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: BUG FIX: Correctly handle zero register transfers Pavel Fedin
2015-12-03  9:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: Correctly handle zero register during MMIO Pavel Fedin
2015-12-03 10:51   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-12-03  9:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: Correctly handle zero register in system register accesses Pavel Fedin
2015-12-03 10:49   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-12-03 11:08     ` Pavel Fedin
2015-12-03 11:36       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-12-03 11:55         ` Pavel Fedin
2015-12-03 13:12           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-12-03  9:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: arm64: Get rid of old vcpu_reg() Pavel Fedin
2015-12-03 10:05 ` [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: BUG FIX: Correctly handle zero register transfers Marc Zyngier
2015-12-03 10:53   ` Pavel Fedin
2015-12-03 11:39     ` Marc Zyngier

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